Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,861, Nathan Fish, Mass.

SERVICE
Fish, Nathan
NUMBER
8.34.861
CONTENTS

Notification sent to Abraham Biglow Esq 22 d Sep 1870 Cambridge Mass

16.037 R  Massachusetts  Nathan Fish
of Charleston in the state of Massachusetts who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Bradford of the Massachusetts line, for the term of Nine months
inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 31 of March 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 26 of Novr 1818 and to John W Davis Esq  Boston Massachusetts
  Arrears to 4th of  Sep 1819  137 31    Semi-ann. all'ce ending  Jun 1820  48 00    14 Mo 1/2   42 50      285 31  
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued

No 84
Nathan Fish 78 — 9 Months Col Bradford Ref.
Map to Line -
31 st March 1818 -
3. Nov. 1819. New Evidence Produced marked A
Admitted

I Nathan Fish of Charlestown, in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, do testify and say - That in or about the month of May 1779 I enlisted as a Musician into the Company of foot commanded by Capt m Turner of Randolph, then Braintree, being in the Regiment commanded by Col o Bradford in Gen. Patersons Brigade belonging to the Continental establishment - That I served in the said Company fourteen months, at West point, Stony point and White plains - and was duly discharged by the said Gen. Patterson in July or August 1780. But I have lost my discharge. I was born in Sandwich, County of Barnstable.
Boston March 31 1818.
Nathan Fish
Mass Dist. Ct. Boston 31. March 1818
Sworn to before me
M c Devitt
Dist. Judge Mass. Dist.
Charlestown March 31 1818
I am personally acquainted with the circumstances of the above-named Nathan Fish, and do believe that he is in need of the relief he applies for.
Oliver Holden Jus. Peace
The said Fish now further on oath declares, that he is in such reduced circumstances of life as to stand in need of assistance from his Country for support.
Nathan Fish
Mass. Dist. Ct. Boston 30. Jany. 1819
Sworn to before me
M c Devitt
Dist. Judge Mass. Dist.

39 Nathan Fish
Cash
16037
Nov. 1819
Cont. 22/11
1820

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
MIDDLESEX, ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Concord, within and for the County of Middlesex, on the second Monday of June A. D. 1820
Before the Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Esquire, Chief Justice,
and
WILLIAM WETMORE, and } Associate Justices STEPHEN MINOT, Esquires, } of said Court.
In open Court here, being a Court of Record for said Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, William Fiske resident at
Concord
in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 16037 now in his possession, of which the following is a true copy, to wit,
“WAR DEPARTMENT.....REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.”
“I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818, William Fiske late a
Private in the army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of eight
dollars per month, to commence on the thirty first day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
“Given at the War Office of the United States, this twenty eighth day of November one thousand eight hundred and
eighteen  E. Brantingham acting J. C. CALHOUN, Secretary of War,”
appears, and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule, subscribed by him, as follows, to wit,
SCHEDULE,
containing his whole estate and income, his necessary clothing and bedding excepted, to wit,
“He has no real estate of any kind nor has lease for more than ten years, his personal estate consists of one cow valued at $10.00 He has nothing but some old furniture in his house which if obliged to sell would not sell for more than $15.00 He is fifty seven years of age wife is fifty years old has one son nineteen years of age is by profession a labourer in the year 1799 enlisted, for nine months in Capt. Sumner's company of General Patterson's Brigade & Col. Bradford's Regt of the Massachusetts line his present income very trifling not sufficient to support his family without his pension must suffer for common necessaries William Fiske

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Wm Melville a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
" I, Nathan Fish do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled " an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," passed on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me ; nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed. So help me GOD.
Nathan Fish
Middlesex ss. C. C. C. P.  June  Term, A. D. 1820
Then the abovenamed Nathan Fish took and subscribed the aforeswritten Oath before me,
Wm Melville
Judge of said Court. "
I, ABRAHAM BIGLOW, Clerk of the Court aforesaid, do hereby certify, that the foregoing Oath, and Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court ; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is
Twenty five dollars
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Cambridge, in said County of Middlesex, on this 20th day of July 1820
Attr. Abraham Biglow

34 861
Rev INVALID.
Rev
File No. 34 861
Nathan Fish
Rev Rev War
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 189
[Arrangement of 1870.]

MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT, ss.
1 February 1819.
I AM satisfied that the above named, Sathan Fish by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, is in need of assistance from his Country for support.
M c David
{ District Judge U. S. Massachusetts Dist.
TO THE SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR.

MASSACHUSETTS, DISTRICT, ss.
Boston 1 February
A. D. 1819
Nathan Fish
IT appearing to my satisfaction, that Nathan Fish subscriber to the annexed declaration, sworn to before me, did serve in the revolutionary war against the common enemy, as stated in said declaration, I now transmit the testimony in the case, with the proceedings had thereon, to the Secretary of the department of war, pursuant to the directions of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war;" the testimony and proceedings in the premises being the declaration aforesaid, with the accompanying documents marked together with this certificate.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the District Court of the United States for this District to be hereunto affixed.
M Davis
} Judge of the District Court U. S. Massachusetts District.

not corrected Returned to Mr. Davis 3 Jan 1820

Dist. Clks' Office Baton 29. Dec. 1819
Hon. John E. Calhoun Secretary of War
Sir
I have the honor to enclose for correction of an error in the name, a certificate, which was probably intended for Nathan Fisk, but which now reads "Nathan Fisk."
With the highest respect
I am Sir
Your very obedt.
Wm Davis Clerk &c.

{ Commonwealth of Mass ts Secretary's office, Octo. 29 th 1819
By this I certify, that, according to official documents now in this Dep- artment, relating to the revolutionary Army, Nathan Fish was a soldier in Capt. Turner's Company & Col. Bradford's Regt. Being a part of the Mass ts Line of the Continental Army in the war of the Revolution, & enlisted Aug st 7 th 1779 for nine months. & that he received pay for service as above to May 17 th 1780 mak- ing his time of service nine months 20 days —
Welden Bradford Secy of S t Comm ee to